For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved. Wherefore also there is woe to them, [though] My flesh is of them.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! For we have sinned.

And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord,

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you travel around land and sea to make one proselyte, and whenever he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell as you.

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

He that swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwelt in it.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe [for] those who dwell on the earth, from the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are to sound [their] trumpets!"

As I called them, so they departed from My presence; they sacrificed to Baalam, and burnt incense to graven images.

Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know Your ways.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

Where shall I go from Your Spirit? And to where shall I flee from Your presence?

If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.

And you shall remember that you [also] were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I charge you to do this thing.

Now they [are] Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your mighty hand.

And He saved them out of the hand of them that hated [them], and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say [so], whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, west, north, and south.

Fear not, Jacob, [and you] Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, He that redeems you, O Israel.

And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you [by] your name; you are Mine.

And He said, Is it not My people? The children surely will not be rebellious; and He became to them deliverance

For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and spotless,

They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

Ephraim has compassed Me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness; [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.

We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.

And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.

that you have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you sent for me, saying, Pray for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.

For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And [so] we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.

Son of man, what do you mean by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

Yet you have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel: will not My way be straight? Is your way straight?

You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You?

And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.